The denial of a Putin-Zelenskyy meeting comes days after Donald Trump said he had begun arrangements for them to sit down together.

Russia’s top diplomat said in an interview released on Friday that “there is no meeting planned” between President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. It was the Kremlin’s most direct declaration yet that a summit the White House suggested was imminent was nowhere close to materializing.

President Trump said in a social media post Monday that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin and set in motion arrangements for a summit at a location to be decided.

Vladimir Putin engaged in a number of unusual activities prior to and after the Alaska summit with Donald Trump, suggesting he is preparing the ground for a peace deal.

Putin is laying “a trap” for the West to walk into if Ukraine ends up giving up land to Russia as part of a potential peace deal to end the war, Kaja Kallas warns.

Kim Jong Un held a tearful ceremony for North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine’s Kursk region and suggested it could mark the end of overseas military operations.

North Korea is "no longer content to have its nuclear weapons and be left alone," a former senior U.S. official told Newsweek.

After the Alaska Summit with US President Donald Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made four demands to end the war. The demands show that he has largely stuck to his maximalist objectives despite Trump’s claims and only made minor changes.